And you have been spending your money day by day to keep me alive.

But then you would have done as much for a stranger.

Great heaven, what a mean hound I seem to myself, as I lie here and think what you have done for me, and how I have acted towards you!" He turned himself in his bed with a great effort, and lay with his face to the wall.

"Let me hide my face from you," he said; "I am a shameful creature." "Believe me, once more, there is not the faintest shadow of an obligation," Gilbert responded eagerly; "I can very well afford anything I have done; shall never feel myself the poorer for it by a sixpence.

I cannot bear that these things should be spoken of between us.